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Change.org solicits donations under George Floyd petition, keeps money

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Re: Change.org solicits donations under George Floyd petition, keeps money

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Mods: the title of this submission ("Change.org solicits donations under George Floyd petition, keeps money") is a blatant case of editorializing, in violation of HN guidelines.

I had copied the title from the article at the time of posting, that's literally the title if you search Google: https://i.imgur.com/Xwheqan.png

Ah, well, I guess business insider is to blame then. The way this title is written initially gave me the very strong impression that change.org has deceived people by pretending to collect donations for one purpose and then keeping them for itself. But in reality the story is people are so dumb they will click to donate $3 without paying any attention to a sentence or two describing what the donation is for -- and then get mad when they find out later.

Re: Change.org solicits donations under George Floyd petition, keeps money

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had copied the title from the article at the time of posting, that's literally the title if you search Google: https://i.imgur.com/Xwheqan.png

Ah, well, I guess business insider is to blame then. The way this title is written initially gave me the very strong impression that change.org has deceived people by pretending to collect donations for one purpose and then keeping them for itself. But in reality the story is people are so dumb they will click to donate $3 without paying any attention to a sentence or two describing what the donation is for -- and th…

I don’t think people are dumb, the language is clearly structured so that it is ambiguous to take advantage of people who care about a cause.
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